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And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon.

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Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?

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No war or battle sound Was heard the world around.

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A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

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With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears.

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Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

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But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.

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Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgement to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.

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Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.

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The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.

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For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.

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Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great command!

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I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.

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O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.

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Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance; she, good cateress, Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare temperance.

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. . . for beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy, At every sudden slighting quite abash'd.

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Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.

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O shame to men! Devil with devil damned Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly grace: and God proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife Among themselves, and levy cruel wars, Wasting the earth, each other to destroy: As if (which might induce us to accord) Man had not hellish foes enough besides, That day and night for his destruction wait.

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This is servitude, To serve th'unwise, or him who hath rebelled Against his worthier, as thine now serve thee, Thyself not free, but to thyself enthralled.

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It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark.

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